The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-02-11

takes to satisfy their curiosity VI. Loyal,
who has been ring master Of the lraIins
Paris circus for - years, supplies interest
ing information concerning horses. The
horse he saws, contrary to general be-
lief Is the most stupid animal earth
He has only one faCulty-me uOry- You
must teach him his exercises with the caves
son and the long whip. Having forced
them into his head You must Use the short
whip when lac resistl tnd give Lin Il carrot
when he obeys Whips and carrots form
the secret of the trainer. The horse must
be FROM ) To : years old; before that age he
is too spirited, after it his muscles are not
elastic enough. The first thing to do il To
accIstOm your horse to the ring, to make
him run round regularly, and then To stop
at II given signal. To accomplish this the
animal is brought into the ring. The
trainer holds in his left hand a tether,
which is passed into the cavesson, u kind Of
iron crescent armed with sharp points fixed
ON the nos,, of the horse; in his right hand
he hollis long whip. Behind the animal
an assistant, with stout short whip, Is
posted
THE TRAINERS METHODS.
"'The trainer calls ON the horse to start,
and, pulling his tether and smacl,ing his
long whip, forces him to gallop round. If lie
refuses the assistant uses his whip also;
if he is obetlient. he is rewarded with car
rot To make him stop short, the trainer
cracks his long whip again, while the assist
ant with his short whip throws himself sud
denly i'll front of the animal, and the result
is obtained" NJ LOYAL tells us that 1.-The
horse has "a great objection to kneeling
lying down at any moment. This feat is
taught by means OF iron brackets placed on
his ankles and attached to n tether held by
the trainer, who, by sudden jerks or pulls
as he is moving. makes him fall or kI !.
The animal remembers the lessons, and. 10y
dint of whip and carrot, ultimately per
forms them at the mere command of the
trainer. The horse Is taught to lance to
music III the same way with the foot brace
lets ~ As regards the learned horse, who
opens boxes and takes articles out of them,
here is how the animal is trained to do it:
Il first get II carrot" says Nj. Loyal, - |
place. it in a box. | then lead the horse to
the box He smells the carrot. lifts up the
lii of the box with his nose and take, out
the vegetable, which he Il allowed to eat.
The next tay, before letting the horse tree,
| show him Il handkerchief full of bran lie
takes it and tries to eat il. then let him
loose. He runs L. the box, but bitter de
ception- is empty The day after l re-
sumo the eXercist.. but this time the horse
finds the handkerchief with the. bran in tho
box. He takes il ont, and | reward him
with a carrot. | decrease the amount of bran
in the handkerchief every day, until in the.
end | put merely the handkerchief III the
box. The horse brings it To- me. and gets
his carrot. | then reduce the sile of the
carrot every day. until ut last | give him
nothing. The horse continues to perform
with the handkerchief i'll the hope of getting
the carrot. -
With respect to- dogs, NJ. Changeux, who
is now exhibiting troupe of them at the
Nouveau Arqre, says their education is "a
work OF time and patience. Sometimes it
takes two years Il use neither sugar nor
whip, he informs us. Il take my dog in
my hands, tall. to him, and try To make
him understand what he is To- do. per
form the tricks myself and the dogs follow
and initiate me- At present h. l. showing
n carriage dog which performs ON the single
wire.
Dogs, PIGS AND ELEPHANTS.
Il will tell you how | taught him 10 he
come am euuilibrist | made him first of all
walk plank which balanced to
and fro The plank was gradually reduced
in width every day, and the movement ne
celebrated. At length the plank dwin,Iled
down To narrow slip, this replaced
10y long round stick, AMI ultimately the
dog found himself the single wire"
Strange To say, this dog Is blind. VI.
Chaugeux says scent is the great quality
which enables dogs To perform some tricks.
For example, the po",ilee who play at
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plays them.
The pig is said 10 be the most difficult ami
NAL to train Tonv Gricc the clown does
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